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  1. Hillel Storch papers

    The Hillel Storch papers consist of correspondence, photographic negatives, personal papers, printed materials, and subject files documenting Storch’s work on behalf of the World Jewish Congress in Sweden to rescue Jews during the Holocaust and to resettle survivors after the Holocaust. Records document his missions, activities, and meetings with Nazi leaders to save Jews from the extermination camps, and include materials about his work with Heinrich Himmler’s assistant Franz Goering and physical therapist Felix Kersten, and SS Brigadeführer Walter Schellenberg about the “White Buses” oper...

  2. Sailing on ships Khedive Ismail and SS Normandie

    View of a foggy horizon from a boat. Deck of the boat, with umbrellas and tables. A lifebuoy reads the name of the ship: “Khedive Ismail, London.” A seagull flies by. More scenes from the boat deck. A safety drill with life jackets. Sam Elias wearing a beret, sitting on deck. Another ship passing. Sam Elias wearing a life preserver. Sam Elias smiling and waving at the camera near the railing. Sam Elias holding a lifebuoy that reads “Normandie Havre.” Sam Elias smoking and taking his jacket off, pretending to go for a swim, then putting his jacket back on. Passengers on the deck. Flags flyin...

  3. Selected records related to the history of the Jewish communities of the Odessa region before and after WWII

    Selected records of several regional branches of the Jewish organizations, Odesa Jewish Communist Party (Poalei-Zion), Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine, training schools, regional Soviet authorities and trade-union organizations in Odesa region. Including are records related to technical education, implementation of the Soviet national policy toward Jewish population and other ethnic minorities residing in the Odesa region, resettlement, creation of the Jewish agricultural collective farms, statistics, minutes of the meetings of the regional bureau of ethnic minorities, various repor...

  5. Photographic print of a teacher and students

    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn613473
    • English
    • overall: Height: 10.880 inches (27.635 cm) | Width: 8.880 inches (22.555 cm) pictorial area: Height: 10.750 inches (27.305 cm) | Width: 8.690 inches (22.073 cm)

    Gelatin silver print of a teacher and students in cheder (Jewish elementary school) in Slonim, ca. 1935-38.

  6. Selected records from the State Archives of the Republic of Cyprus related to the Jewish emigration

    Selected records of the British colonial administration of Cyprus related to the Jewish legal and illegal emigration to Cyprus, internment camps for Jews who had immigrated or attempted to immigrate to Mandatory Palestine in violation of British policy as well as other matters related to Jews, Polish and other refugees in Cyprus before, during and immediately after WWII. Includes passenger’s lists divided by particular SS ships (1934); a list of illegal Jewish emigrants on board of the Bulgarian SS Rudnichar (1940); registers and correspondence relating to acquisition of properties in Cypru...

  7. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish : Embassy in Ankara Ambasada Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Ankarze (Sygn.499)

    Reports, correspondence, Polish and Turkish press, statistics, circulars related to Turkish emigration policy, situation of refugees from Armenia, evacuation of Polish people from USSR to Iran, relocation of Jews in Hungary, and German dependent countries, and activities of international organizations.

  8. Teodor Diamant papers

    The collection documents the experiences of Teodor Diamant, originally of Turčiansky Svätý Martin (Martin, Slovakia), on the SS Pentcho, its shipwreck on the uninhabited island of Kamilonissi, while en route to Palestine, and his internment at a concentration camp on Rhodes and then the Ferramonti concentration camp in Tarsia, Italy. Included is a photograph album documenting his voyage on the ship and his internment in the camps. Other photographs document his military experience with a Czech unit in Great Britain, family and friends, and post-war experiences in London and the United State...

  9. Fink Family papers

    Consists of correspondence addressed to Sgt. Gabriel George Fink (1917-1997) while stationed in France from loved ones in the United States, including a letter inquiring about the fates of Raphael (1879-1943) and Sophie Bakhrakh (1908-1943), as well as two photographs. The photographs depict Sgt. Fink while in Nice and the public humiliation of French women accused of collaboration.

  10. Spangenthal family papers

    The collection primarily contains the correspondence of Ludwig and Kurt Spangenthal, who immigrated to the United States in 1936 and 1938 respectively and settled in Baltimore, with their mother Marianne Spangenthal (née Schönemann) in Kassel, Germany prior to her deportation in 1942. Also included is correspondence between Ludwig, Kurt, and Marianne and Marianne’s brother Robert Schönemann, who immigrated to the United States in 1939. There is biographical material related to Ludwig which includes his German passport, photographs, scattered notes, and identification papers mostly related t...

  11. Maya and Giora Amir collection

    Contains documents, correspondence, and photographs related to the Wachs and Liebesmann families. Salomea Lusia Liebesmann Wachs, donor’s mother, b. 1909 had three brothers: Benjamin and Mendel, engineers who survived in France and Abraham, physician, who was saved by a German officer and his wife in Stanislawow.; Lusia Wachs and her husband Artur Wachs, b. 1901, an engineer, lived in Stryj and worked for Polish Railways; Giora Jerzyk was born on July 10, 1937. Dr. Włodzimierz Łużecki, Artur’s boss arranged for him baptismal certificate for the name: Hieronim Kozdrowicz. False ID’s were iss...

  12. Collection of letters by child survivors

    Collection of letters from child survivors of the Holocaust in Holland and France, regarding their immigration to Israel; addressed to the teachers Raphael and Gini who were living in Israel. Includes drawings and cards for Rosh Hashana

  13. Jewish Community Hannover after the Second World War Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg (Sign. D-Ha2)

    Official records of the National Association of the Jewish Communities of Lower Saxony (Landesverband der jüdischen Gemeinden von Niedersachsen) as well as the official records of the Jewish Community in Hannover (Jüdische Gemeinde Hannover) from the postwar period until the late 1960s. The collection consists of correspondence, financial documents, questionnaires, circulars, registers and reports relating to Jewish Holocaust survivals and the organization of their life after WWII.

  14. Documents of Jewish communities, organizations and schools in Brazil

    Records from various Jewish communities in Brazil, including Amazonas, Belém, Bello Horizonte, Manaus, Niterói, Pará, Porto Alegre, Quatro Irmãos, Rio de Janeiro, Santa Maria, Santos, and São Paulo. Features board minutes, protocols, statutes, membership registries, birth and death records, lists of Jewish residents, correspondence and reports, account ledgers, newspaper clippings, publications and articles, a photo album (digital file BR/BL79), school and pedagogical materials, and other documents.

  15. Sidney Elenberg papers

    Contains documents illustrating Sidney Elenberg's postwar emigration from Italy to the United States. The documents were falsified to gain easier access to the United States.

  16. Wooden sign with a painted butterfly made from trash found in postwar Berlin

    Wooden sign with butterfly made of rubble found in the ruins of Berlin; verso: typed page affixed with explanation: in the summer of 1945 a small group of friends, painters and designers and decided to create something out of the ruins. The light blue came from tiles of a delicatessen store on Potsdamer Platz and the red brown came from bricks of an old building on Wilhelmstrasse.

  17. Selected records of the Embassies, Consulates and Diplomatic Legations of the Polish Republic : Consulate of the Republic of Poland in Memel Konsulat Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej w Kłajpedzie 1939 (Sygn. 471)

    Political reports, correspondence,and circulars related to Jewish property and reparations in Germany, German political relations with Poland; Lithuanian and German relations, and the withdrawal of Polish citizenship for Jews residing in Germany.

  19. Filantropia: Official organ of the Jewish Philanthropic Association Publicacion de la Asociación Filantropica Israelita [starting in 1980] Filantropia: Organo de la Asociación Filantropica Israelita

    Monthly serial of the Asociación Filantropica Israelita, published in Spanish and German in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Previous title: Mitteilungsblatt (Hilfsverein deutschsprechender Juden).

  20. Elisabeth Eidenbenz papers Nachlass Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011)

    Private papers of Elisabeth Eidenbenz (1913-2011), a teacher, nurse, and aid worker for refugees in the camps of Argelès-sur-Mer, Saint Cyprien, and Rivesaltes, France and in other places. The collection consists of private personal documents, correspondence and photographs of Elisabeth Eidenbenz and her family; reports, press articles, correspondence, and photographs relating to activities of Elisabeth Eidenbenz to rescue children of Spanish Republicans, Jewish refugees and Romanies fleeing the Nazi invasion. Elisabeth Eidenbenz was a founder of the Mothers of Elne-a maternal hospital at E...